Dr. ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for Energy, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy,Official Report, 8 March, column 546, if he will set out the policy reasons underlying his statement that it is not in the national interest to give timing and operational reasons of reprocessing campaigns at Sellafield.
§ Mr. Michael SpicerI have nothing to add to my answer of 8 March 1989, at column546.
Dr. ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for Energy if, in light of the statement to Standing Committee E on the Electricity Bill, 7 March,Official Report, column 1480, by the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Forth) that every contract signed to reprocess foreign matter includes a requirement that all the waste products should be sent back to the country of origin, he will state when contracts signed before 1976 for reprocessing of spent 276W nuclear fuel at BNFL Sellafield, which did not originally include such a requirement, were renegotiated to include such a clause.
§ Mr. Michael SpicerThe pre-1976 contracts to which the hon. Member refers have not been renegotiated to include return of wastes clauses.